It&#039;s Elementary

We welcomed Mathew Needleman who discussed Video in the Classroom.
Maria was unable to join us due to her mother's birthday (happy
birthday to you!), Alice discussed attending Mathew's presentation at CUE last
week. Her blog post is here it includes links to his presentation. We touched on...

Have a listen as we discuss Conferences and what makes them 2.0.
What makes a face-to-face conference 2.0? Is it the conversations, how
they are organized (what are the topics, and how decided), lecture vs.
hands on.

Listen as we give our experiences with recent conferences and our
expectations as teachers using Web 2.0 tools. We gave examples and how
the bar is moving up with Web 2.0 tools like wikis, Skype, twitter and
Ustream and the like. We also spoke about the unconference format as
seen at educon at NECC and recently at SLA.

What can the presenter do to make it more 2.0?
Have a wiki for the presentation. Tags set up. Allow for and encourage
backchannel conversation. Reach out to virtual attendees and others out
on the web live with tools like Skype and Ustream.

What can the participants do to make it 2.0?
Adding notes to wiki presenter page. Live Blogging.
Blog and use session tag. Record and post as podcasts like David Warlick, Bob Sprankle and Wes Fryer.

Join us the 2nd and 4th Mondays of every month. 4pm pacific, 7pm
eastern at www.edtechtalk.com/live Our next show will be on Monday
March 10th, 2008. We will be discussing Video in the Classroom with our
guest Mathew Needleman.

Lisa and Maria shared their EduCon 2.0 experience with several guests who were also in attendance. The post show conversation added to the overall discussion and the chat room was lively as well. It was a record breaker!

One issue that came up was the lack of RSS on content pages geared towards students. We've used feeds from Highlights, and Discovery Science.
If you have other elementary-age content that has an RSS feed, please
share it on in our Diigo group, or here as a comment. Thanks!

With our Guest Steve Hargadon. Steve shares his insights about tagging with us.

Our discussion included use of tagging in blogs, pictures, in social bookmarking, at conferences, and with our students.

Steve talked about the purpose and structure of tagging. We use
tags on content we produce so that it is useful to others on the net.
The use of tags in social bookmarking such as del.icio.us and diggo
are examples. We are able to see how others tag content on the web.
We can tag our own content using similar taxonomy or create our own.
Steve reminded us that there is tension between using standardized tags
versus a more independent free flowing tag system. We can use
technorati and or Blog search engines like google to make sense of all
the content.

At NECC 2007
session specific tags were proposed and adopted by the community. This
standardized form of tagging allowed for aggregation session specific
content. The same system is also used in classroom 2.0 to standardize the way blog posts and other content is tagged.

Our next show will be on January 14th, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific / 7:00 p.m. Eastern. at Edtechtalk

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